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Country of Origin:

Madagascar

Interview Date:

October 15, 2008

Location:

Butare, Rwanda

Interviewers:

John McKayBatya Friedman

Videographer:

Patricia Boiko

Timestamp:

5:22 - 10:05

Transcript

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John McKay: In, in your work as an investigator, y-, you have worked with many eye-witnesses to, to the genocide. Tell us about some of the challenges in working with witnesses – how do you work with witnesses so that they can give their evidence and hold people accountable?

Interpreter: When we started investigating, talking about Butare – because I was assigned to work there – we started by interviewing many people at random, because we had to get information on what happened.

1:34

JM: You have met many of witnesses, you have worked with them, can you give us an example of someone who particularly touched you, who, who, who made you feel a certain way about, about the genocide? We don’t want to know any names or cases, but, but was there an example you could give us of a person who was so affected by what happened here?

Interpreter: What has impressed me, what has touched me is the concern, the – the women who were raped during that genocide, they were obliged to reveal to us what they have gone during that tragic event and it is very sad.

3:22

JM: Was there any, any one woman who sticks out in your mind and can you tell us about her, without telling your, her name?

Interpreter: I will not name her name and I’ll try to restrict myself not, not to reveal personal – but it’s a lady who was raped by many, many soldiers and she was obliged to tell us what happened each time she was raped.

The views expressed in the video interviews are those of the speaker and do not necessary reflect the views of the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab, Information School, University of Washington, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, United Nations, or the funders of this project.